Name: The Shadow District
SKU: 50250084
Price: 646.00 TWD
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Author: Arnaldur Indridason
ISBN: 9781784704421

Type

Physical Book

Author

Arnaldur Indridason

Publisher

Penguin

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781784704421

The Shadow District

Arnaldur Indridason (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Shadow District "

OLD CRIMES, NEW CONSEQUENCES THE PAST In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled behind the National Theatre, a rough and dangerous area of the city known as `the shadow district'. An Icelandic detective and a member of the American military police are on the trail of a brutal killer. THE PRESENT A 90-year-old man is discovered dead on his bed, smothered with his own pillow. Konrad, a former detective now bored with retirement, finds newspaper cuttings in the dead man's home reporting the shadow district murder that date back to the second world war. It's a crime that Konrad remembers, having grown up in the same neighbourhood. A MISSING LINK Why, after all this time, would an old crime resurface? Did the police arrest the wrong man? How are these cases linked across the decades? Will Konrad's link to the past help him solve the case and finally lay the ghosts of wartime Reykjavik to rest? THE SHADOW DISTRICT IS THE FIRST IN A MAJOR NEW SERIES OF NOVELS FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER ARNALDUR INDRIDASON

Arnaldur Indridason

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He is the author, among other crime novels, of Jar City, which received the Glass Key Award for the best Nordic crime novel in 2002, and Voices, winner of the Martin Beck Award for the best crime novel translated into Swedish. With The Draining Lake he won the Gold Dagger, establishing him as a benchmark for the best European crime narrative. He has also won the French Critics' Prize for Best Crime Novel and the RBA Prize for Crime Fiction. A successful writer, his works have sold over 18 million copies and have been translated into more than 40 languages.

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